On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <ser...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> Vincent Massol wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having 2 problems with Plexus: > > > > 1) I tried to upgrade and it's not working. They've dropped the > > ability to dynamically register a new component instance for an > > existing role. Jason Van Zyl said he's ok to fix it but he's busy on > > other stuff and it's been now 2 weeks since he said he'll fix it. > > Generally speaking there are not many people working on Plexus core so > > it's not moving much. > > > > 2) I tried using events (it was there in alpha-31 but seem to have > > disappeared in recent versions - I may be wrong. However since there's > > zero documentation I had to try to find it in the code and couldn't > > find it) and couldn't. Even in alpha-31 it doesn't work (it works only > > for components located in components.xml but since we're dynamically > > registering components it doesn't work for us. > > > > Thus I'm more and more tempted to drop support for Plexus and instead > > use our Embedded component manager for now and start a xwiki-osgi > > module that would implement our SPI for OSGi. I've read OSGi > > documentation and it looks not too difficult to do. > > > > I have all the code done for sending Component Manager events but it > > won't work with Plexus so I'm proposing to use our Embedded CM for > > now. In the meantime I'll try to talk to Jason to see what can be done > > on the plexus side. > > > > WDYT? > > > > Note that our Embedded CM hasn't been tested for multithreading so > > we'll need to verify it works in the 2.0 dev cycle and fix any > > threading issue. > > We can also take a look at Guice. > > I don't know what the switch implies, but since we're in the early > stages of 2.0, we can try it on the trunk. > I had some reading about guice and it seems quite powerful and well designed and much lighter and focused on DI than Spring and maybe a bit "more modern and alive" than plexus even if plexus did it right... there is also an out-of-the-box OSGI integration extension http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/ > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
